Ed Stivala walks through a week-1 interval session at Milton Keynes canal: a 6x1.2 set with 400m segments at increasing pace, plus warm-up and cool-down. He suggests varying your routes during training to avoid getting too comfortable before race day.
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So nearly at the end of week 1, and today was an interval set, so I thought I'd go somewhere different. And as you can see, I've come to the canal in Milton Keynes. I don't know if there's more than one, but anyway, I've come to the only one I know. So yes, so today's set was 6 times 1.2. 1.2 is conveniently divisible by 400 metres, and every 400 metres you increase the pace, starting off at a moderate pace, moving up to a sustainable pace in the third Third one, second one, and then hitting your race pace in the final set. So that would lend itself super well to track session as well, being 400 meters. And yeah, that was it. And that included a bit of a warm-up, bit of a cool-down, nothing very exciting. But I thought I'd come somewhere different because if you're always running the same place, psychologically you get very used to where things are and how long things take, and it feels a bit easier. On race day, you probably haven't raced—